The Michigan Interscholastic Press Association today honored Kanav Kalmadi with the Aspiring Young Journalist Award for a top middle school student.
Kalmadi, of Sterling Heights, is the editor-in-chief of the newspaper and has been an anchor and director for the broadcast program at Cranbrook Kingswood Boys Middle School, where he works with media advisers Christina Hammitt and Jesse Sutherland. Kalmadi’s parents are Shrinath Kalmadi and Arti Upadhyaya.
MIPA’s Aspiring Young Journalist contest recognizes Michigan’s top middle school student journalists. This contest honors work from junior high/middle school students and is designed to encourage them to continue to pursue journalism in high school. To enter, students must assemble a portfolio of their journalistic work from middle school. Students must be in their final grade of middle school to enter.
ABOUT THE MICHIGAN INTERSCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION
Founded in 1921 and housed in the Michigan State University School of Journalism, the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association is a nonprofit organization composed of scholastic journalism teachers and publications advisers and their students. MIPA is committed to promoting and recognizing excellence in scholastic journalism at all levels through education, training and support of student journalists and their advisers.